Centenary 8 Speakers

Saturday, I rowed with Centenary but there was no sound from the two speakers in bow and 4 seat. 

Sunday, I spent half an hour and worked out there was a problem with the cable.  

Into work and it seemed that the issue was with the male connector. Very unusual. 

Cut it off. 

Observed the wire was corroded. This makes it very hard to solder. 

Used red crimp joiners and covered the whole join with glue lined heatshrink.   Note the joiners were offset. This was so the diameter of the join was not too different to the cable. 

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SATURDAY 

Rowing 8 @ Centenary.

Drove to Dicky Beach

CHOPPIN N CHANGING

Starting from Phoebe stating she'd like a swim in the ocean. 

Earlier in the week the plan for Saturday was to get up early and drive to the Gold Coast, do main Beach park run then drive up the spit and give mags an off lead run on the beach and Phoebe to swim. 

Then I Established that Peter and Robyn were camping at Dicky Beach so the first change was to switch to a North focused plan.  

Toward the end of the week, I received a text from Tanya asking if I could row with Centenary in an eight on Saturday. I checked in with Phoebe and confirmed. 

Saturday, 

I got up early and went to Centenary. Despite problems with the PA we had a nice row.  Wide variety of skills. Very flat water. Friendly crew 

I drove straight from Centenary to Phoebe's where I showered and changed. We bought coffee's and breaky Wraps at the village and ate them as we drove North.

A impromptue detoure via the big kart track. A requirement for closed shoes meant this switched to a fact finding mission. $60 for 15 minutes plus $5 for a balaclava. 

Onto Caloundra. Luckily found a park in a very congested parking area. Modern com tech led us to meeting Peter in a nearby coffee shop. 

Some awkwardness because Peter and Robyn were based on the beach but dogs not allowed. They Decamped to a shelter beside the surf club where we relaxed with coffee. Morning tea followed and wrapped up with a tour of the caravan. 

Phoebe and I walked back to the car.  Put on sunscreen and when I went to slap on a hat, I realised it was lost.  Yet another phone call established it was back at the caravan. We walked along the road and managed to work out a place where Peter could throw it over the fence. 

Onto the beach. 

A nice walk. 

Phoebe was in the water pretty quick.  Took me much longer to acclimatise to the temperature. 

During the course of swimming, Mags lost her collar.  This was sad because Chris had made it himself including forging a brass ring. 

A pretty quick and uneventful drive home down the Bruce. The auto follow feature makes this pretty easy. 

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SATURDAY 

Last weekend I went to Maryborough and on my return, we saw how with space she activated her creative gene and printed some photos. This lead to a discussion about how we exist together in a way that enhances each of us. The result was Saturday where Phoebe asked me to just hang out at her place while she pottered.  

I did feel a bit guilty lying around and writing some software but checked in with her and this was what she wanted. 

park Run

and a trip to the dump 

SUNDAY 

Coaching Arnie and Son

frustrated

One of those days. 

Good row that was the exception. 

At work

Customer called and explained we'd supplied some product that behaved differently from earlier supplied units. 

Another potential Customer called chasing a response. 

Forgot to take a shirt to rowing. 

Car charged at 5A rather than 32A.

Forgot to put the oven shelf over the plastic in the dishwasher. 

Bridge-Bridge

Maryborough 

T-minus

THINGS TO DO

Bond store

Train Museum over enthusiastic 

Walk at the opposite side of park where we boat. 

Main park scale model train. 

Waterfront region near the sailing club. 

FRIDAY NIGHT

Packed sports bag into the car. 

SATURDAY 

During the night remembered my blazer and put it in the kitchen. 

5:30 Alarm. Share coffee with Phoebe. Had intended to leave at 6 but this was delayed until 6:30.  Took several attempts to leave. Got onto Oxley Rd and realised I'd forgotten my coffee. U turn. Home and Phoebe said she'd run after me but I'd gotten away. Then she asked if I had my lunch. Ahh no. It was still in the fridge.  Thank you Phoebe 😊. 

Finally on the road. 

Dropped into Aspley maccas and got a sausage and egg mcmuffin.

Next stop was an hour out of Maryborough for a wee and look up and set the exact address. 

9:50 Arrived. 

Parked on the road above the rowing club. Began to collect the stuff I'd need into a woolies bag. Sun was hot.  Put on sunscreen.  Sarah and her family parked near by as did Scotty.  Mike joined as and we walked to the rowing club. 

Beastie & JT and the boat was already there. They'd made very good time. 

Unloaded and began to assemble the boat.  First squall. Abandoned ship and sought shelter in the club house. 

Completed assembling the boat.  Half listened to the briefing. 

Launching was scary. They have a new pontoon with an engineering cock-up. It's too high. Seems a common problem with pontoon builders. Idiots. Anyway the rowing people have a temporary floating extension and it's very wobbly.  Super scary.  With the help of some of the local high school kids, we managed to get the boat in the water without breaking it or us or them. 

12:00 RACE

There was apparently 4 eights but i only saw 3.

The red eight went first. We started second and the collegians went third. Sarah informed we that we were gaining on the red eight at the same time the collegians were steadily and relentlessly gaining on us.  We were rating around 30 strokes per minute and the collegians were way lower. 

 I think we, as a club,  continually rate too high. Not my call. 

On the other hand the boat felt pretty good. Timing was good and the boat sat up.  The water was very rough.  We had a good rhythm. 

The rain came down.

We approached the turn around. Went under the bridge. The rain stopped for one second. A hard strokeside turn. I was in 3 seat and bow side had to row very hard to pull it around. 

On the way back, the rain just got harder.  My woolies bag sloshed about and disgorged it's contents into my foot well. Muslie bar, tee shirt zip lock bag with phone. I was concerned the bag would not be waterproof and if the phone,  supposedly water proof, died then I'd be in trouble as I would not be able to open my car. 

We had a local in 2 seat and he called heads up.  I realised I had lost focus and snapped back putting extra into my legs.  Arms were full of pins and needles.

Not long after he called 1500.  Divide by 10 and that's 150 strokes.  As we crossed the finish line the rain abated. 

After some fiddling about we pulled into the pontoon.  More helpers helped lift the water filled hull out of the water.  Very very scary on the floating extension. One smart fellow had worked out he could stablise things by crawling under the boat to the river side. 

Hot shower. Fingers numb and lots of pins and needles.

CHARGING

7/8Sun Fathers Day

Bit of a recap of the week. 

THURSDAY 

Chris & Dan came to dinner. 

Porterhouse steak, mashed pot, steamed Brocolini and carrot. 

FRIDAY 

Fletch's birthday dinner.

SATURDAY 

Brown Snake rowing race went well. 

Saw Melia and Bella coaching Brigidine at Terrace. So nice to see. 

SUNDAY 

Fathers day

Pretty relaxed. 

Coached 2 kids and 2 dads

Calls from Marcus and Jemma.

Chris dropped in. 

Relaxing day with Phoebe. 

Woke up early 1am thinking about my dad. 

DREAM

In ute, very very rough road. Turn and go up hill 4WD stuff but I'm still making it. Gets too steep and in a channel. Starts to tip back over but swing to the side and flip round so still on the wheels. 

Then I'm on a Billy cart. Down hill. At one point I'm trying to follow and catch up to a friend. Then I discover its got no front wheels. Just part of it that scrapes or rubs on the road. 

OASIS

Moon eclipse 

Next week

Bridge to bridge